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May 15, 2024, Page 9 Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press"
Extracted by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon. Index of "Oldies" Articles |
Clark County News
May 11, 1944
Senior play at Granton will be staged May 17
The annual senior play of the Granton High School will be presented Wednesday, May 17. It will be directed by Miss Christenson, and presented by the following cast: Shirley Lautenbach, Ada Pigott, Ione Dankemeyer, Bernard Winn, John Winn, Shirley Kayser Audrey Williams, Fay Quicker, Jerry Marg, Clifford Riedel, Marjorie Hales. Assistant director, Gertrude Stickert. Property committee: Harvey Pischer, Herbert Lavey, Albert Hasz. Publicity: June Sternitzky, Arlene Schlinsog, Marian Breseman.
The play is a comedy, “Blues on the Run.”
Musical numbers between acts will be offered by Victor McHone and a trio consisting of Ione Dankemeyer, Shirley Lautenbach and Laura Mae Elmhorst.
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How canning sugar will be handled here
Plans for handling the canning sugar for the Neillsville area are announced as follows by D.E. Peters, local chairman: The registration dates are Wednesday, May 17, and Thursday, May 18. The hours are from 9 to 4. On the first day, May 17, applications will be received from residents in the First and Second wards; on the second day, May 18, from residents of the Third and Fourth wards. Country people may come on either day, at their own convenience.
Mr. Peters draws particular attention to the arrangements for applications. These are obtainable at all food stores. They must be obtained and completely filled out before coming to the school building. Under no conditions will workers at the school building help in filling out applications. Mr. Peters states that no exception can be made, and that all applicants will save themselves time and trouble by having their applications in complete readiness when they arrive at the high school building.
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Gas rations for the workers in bond drive
James A. Musil, chairman of the war savings committee, has been called to Milwaukee on Friday of this week. There he will attend a meeting of all Wisconsin chairmen, called to arrange for the Fifth war loan. There the chairmen will learn about the arrangements and will be advised how to proceed locally. This is the first such meeting called prior to a loan campaign.
Meanwhile Mr. Musil has straightened out the one question which had made the most difficulty locally, the question of gas rations for workers. Up to this time gas rations for workers have not been provided in advance, and this has led to complications, for in some instances the workers, while willing to buy gas, just couldn’t get it for lack of stamps. So, it has been arranged for the coming campaign that the ration business will all be cared for in advance. Stamps will be issued and will be turned over in advance to those having need of them.
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Advertisement in the Press, May 11, 1944, issue
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May 6, 1954
Buck season or closed season up for debate
Sportsmen will argue it out at meeting set for Monday evening
A buck season or a closed season–that will probably be the big issue at the annual meeting of local sportsmen, to be held at the courthouse next Monday evening. The debate on this question waxed hot one year ago, with a bare majority in favor of the buck season–which prevailed.
The sportsmen will decide whether the majority was right last year, and whether the weight of evidence is with that argument in 1954. Is the local herd decimated, or is it up to the normal feed capacity of this area? Has there been a gain, on the whole, or the reverse?
Nobody who wants to keep his head on his shoulders will venture in advance an opinion on that matter. The boys will have it out, without advance prejudice, when they get together next Monday evening.
The word from Madison is that in part of the state the conservation authorities would like to follow a buck season of one week with a wide-open season of two days. This proposal, however, is not made with reference to Clark County. The area intended to be affected is farther north.
While the deer question is always the big issue at the annual meeting, recommendations will be made to the state congress on all fish and game regulations, except in the case of fur-bearing animals. Those are handled separately.
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Lots of weather, but no flood here
Rain and snow and cold, but Clark County is living through it
Clark County has had lots of weather the past week. It has rained–almost three inches. It snowed– just a little late Monday. It has been cold–the lowest was 26 above zero Tuesday morning.
If anybody doesn’t like the weather as it has been, he can perk up over the outlook, for the prospect of definitely warmer.
Whatever the weather, Clark County has suffered no flood damage. While neighboring Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls have had their troubles, Neillsville and Greenwood, located on the Black River, are built on ground so high that they never are in danger.
They watched the river
The only persons around here who viewed the rising water with any concern were the Elmer Meyers at the farm of the Indian school. Back a few years ago, when Black River was really trying, the waters came up above the first floor of the house, and the Vornholts, who lived there then, were forced to move their furniture to a higher spot.
But the Meyers have a line of the river. Mrs. Meyer is the official weather woman, and she with the help of her husband, watched the gauge which tells the river’s height. That gauge showed a top of 14 feet on May 2, and at that level the river did not even flood the garden. From there the river level went down steadily until on Wednesday morning the level was 8.75.
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Mrs. Kenneth Manz is a new member of school board
Mrs. Kenneth Manz has been chosen a member of the school board to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Mrs. Walter Borde, who has left the district. Mrs. Manz becomes treasurer. She was chosen, in accordance with the law concerning vacancies, by the school board. Her term extends through the present school year.
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May 16, 1974
Press wins in statewide competition
The Clark County Press was honored this past week when it received two state awards offered by the Wisconsin Press Association.
The Press gained a third-place ranking in advertising design, layout, and copy after submitting a series of display advertisements from Jenni Floral Company. An honorable mention was also awarded to The Press for a three-part feature of early last year which detailed court decisions and their effect on mentally ill in the county.
Approximately 170 newspapers from across the state entered the competition, which were judged by newspaper publishers and editors from the state of Washington.
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Playing possum! This was the task of a recent visitor to the Granton school’s sixth grade class. The visitor was the center of discussion on animals in the class and the students learned the possum seldom are seen in Wisconsin’s north woods. Pictured are (l to r) Marcia Winter, Loretta Langreck, Mrs. Kuehn, Rodney Bixby and Marvin Richmond. (Press photo May 16, 1974)
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Special recognition for service to the Neillsville Camp Fire Girl association was awarded to leaders and board members at the annual council fire held May 8. Pictured (left to right) are Mrs. Lucille Montgomery, Mrs. Eleanore Jordahl, Mrs. Lorraine Sitter, Mrs. Mary Heineck and Mrs. Corrine Brekke. (Press photo May 16, 1974)
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May 18, 1994
Fallen officers remembered
One law enforcement officer who dies in the line of duty is one too many. Clark County has had four such known deaths over the years, and those officers have come to be remembered as some of the county’s very finest.
But that number is only a small fraction of those on-duty officers who have died in the state of Wisconsin or, indeed, within the entire United States.
Last Friday, Clark County Sheriff Dale Olson shared some of the grim statistics that he had compiled on Wisconsin alone. “There have been 182 known law enforcement officers from 69 different departments throughout the state that have died in the line of duty over the years, he said. The causes of death were varied; gunshot, 85; auto accident, 65; heart attack, 13; bomb explosion, 9; drowning, 5; electrocution, 2; physical beating, 1 and unknown causes, 2.
The earliest known fatality of an on-duty officer was the 1882 death of Officer Gibson of the Horicon Police Department, Olson said. The latest was Waukesha Police Department’s Capt. James A. Lutz who died in a widely publicized shootout during a Wales bank robbery on April 29.
Clark County’s first known fatality of a law enforcement official while on duty was Fred C. Griffin, an Owen policeman who was shot in 1912 while trying to apprehend three robbers.
In 1955, Mark H. Russell, a Neillsville game warden, fell from an overturned canoe and drowned. Russell County Park in Hatfield has since been dedicated to his memory.
A heart attack claimed the life of Julius Johnson, an Owen policeman in 1966.
And in 1974, Neillsville policeman Lawrence L. Struble died of a heart attack.
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Lake Arbutus boat landings to open
Clark County Sheriff Dale Olson and Jackson County Sheriff Richard Galster announce the reopening of the boat landings at Lake Arbutus in Hatfield, Wis. Those landings were closed in June 1993 because of the flooding problems experienced at that time.
The reopening will be allowed at 5 a.m. on Wednesday, May 18, 1994.
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